Here is the deal. This is NOT a medical emergency. She told the boss that it was a medical emergency to get the time off. It became my business when she a)lied to get the time off and b) screwed me, my co-workers, and our customers over. Right now we do not have the staff to cover. IF this was just personal time off you would have a point. This is NOT personal time. Since Jamie called the issue a ‘medical emergency’ the company pretty much has no choice but to give her the time off. I do have the feeling that she is going to get busted for his little stunt (how the hell do you hide a boob job?) and the results probably won’t be good for her though I ain’t gonna say anything. My understanding is that she is getting paid medical time off for this but I am not positive about that.
Amy, the woman I work with who told me about the situation, is good friends (or was, I don’t think the friendship is going to survive this) heard all about the procedure from Jamie herself. It is purely cosmetic. Jamie just wants bigger tits.
Jamie asked for the time off and was denied. So she called it a medical emergency to get the time off. She knew that the available vacation time had been taken months ago. The fact that she is getting a boob job is pretty irrelavent to the situation, it is the lying that is the issue. If she just wanted the time off to get her hair and nails done and lied about an emergency situation to get the time off I’d still be pissed.
About point B. My employer did manage the work load. They told her ‘NO’ when she asked for the time off the first time around. The only way the management could do something about it now would be to cancel someones vacation. Canceling other peoples vacation wasn’t really an option as most people had plans to travel out of state. Once Jamie played the ‘medical emergency’ card my employer did not have much to say about the situation.
If she had her tits done within the last week, you wont be seeing her tomorrow. The girl will be too swollen and bruised to walk or eat, let alone go into work.
Well, since the deed is done and it’s too late to undo it now, I think an appropriate punishment for her would be a permanent letter in her personnel file, being made to repay any paid time off she got or assigning all days off to her vacation account, enforcing that any short notice time off for her in the future is accompanied by a doctor’s note, and all vacation for her is submitted at least one month prior to time off and subject to approval by her manager. In other words, this is the last stunt she pulls at this employer.
By the way, psychological approval for all boob jobs? These are the same people who did Michael Jackson’s face - I have serious concerns about their ethics.
Well, while I’m sure the doctor will discuss the surgery and WHY you’re having it done (they’d probably balk at someone who said, “My new tits are going to make my life PERFECT!”) the only time you have to go through the whole psych thingy is when we’re talking a sex change operation.
Yes. That’s why so many cosmetic surgeons are starving in the gutter, because they won’t give fourteen year old girls nose jobs without first lengthily considering the ethical implications.
There are three kinds of workers- those who abuse their leave, those who “use” their leave- and those who come into work while sick and make everyone else use their leave. Now, while I agree “Jamie” appears to be category #1, by this *you * appear to be category #3, which is also being a discourteous cow-orker.
Don’t abuse your leave and thus make your co-workers work extra hard to make up for your slacking.
Don’t come into work sick and thus make your co-workers sick, so they have to use up their sick leave- making extra work for everyone. This is especially bad if you have co-workers who are Mothers who sometimes have to use up extra leave to stay home with their sick kids.
I agree. Actually, when I am sick I’d rather call in. The problem is that staffing is such that calling in would have left one girl, the girl this rant is about, on shift alone which a) is against company policy and b) not cool to her. Of coarse, after this little stunt I don’t give a damned about her problems…Anyway, my boss ended up covering my shift and working like 18 hours that day.
The staffing levels are another rant which I don’t feel like writing right now. It’s my day off
Well, somehow I doubt giving her the flu would be cool to her either. Sorry, I’ve got no sympathy for this type of thing. Co-workers who come in sick drive me absolutely insane. In fact, I was just recently thinking of starting a pit thread on this very thing. The other day my coworker who sits about a foot away from me, came in deathly ill. She was hacking and wheezing all over the place. I wanted to kill her. Miraculously, I didn’t catch anything. Then a client at my other job later called saying “I’ve decided to get off of my sick bed and come in and sign some papers” that didn’t have to be signed for a week. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to say “look you selfish bitch, STAY IN YOUR DAMN SICK BED SO I DON’T HAVE TO GET INTO MINE!”
For me, this kind of behavior is at the very height of selfishness.
Ol’ Jamie’s going to wish she had left her original boobage alone if those things harden up. Am I mistaken, or haven’t silicone breast implants made a partial comeback?
There are all kinds of implants and they generally don’t harden up if they are taken care of (there is a STRICT regimen of massaging several times a day that MUST be followed). Granted, after a decade or more the implants may need to be replaced, but that isn’t an issue for her now.
So it is selfish of me to go into work when I feel like hell, and would rather call in, so my co-work won’t be screwed?
Fuck off.
There are staffing issues where I work, which hopefully will be solved in about 3 months. As I said earlier the staffing issue is another rant. I went in because to call in would have left my coworker alone and it was pure chance that my boss happened to be in , it was supposed to be his day off.
